Neighborhood racial & ethnic diversity as a predictor of child welfare system involvement

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 95-105

  Klein, Sacha ^a   Merritt, Darcey H ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child maltreatment; Diversity; Ecological models; Neighborhoods; Race; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898925625     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.03.009     Document Type: Article

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